An Eighth Shot of Espresso: Coffee and Creativity on Mum's Third Shift

Bird is a  broad descriptor  it covers everything: from a penguin  who cannot fly  to a phoenix  who cannot die to a nightingale who always sings to a crow stealing shiny rings to a falcon silent and deadly to a hummingbird hovering friendly life and death good and evil birds cover eternity

They tell you  to feel gratified with what you have  but that does not mean  that you should settle  for less than you are worth Do not agree  with their assessment that you should be quiet, demure and low maintenance.  Be someone who speaks up when it matters but do it with grace and tact.

Let these ideas flow  write them down  as they come to you do not depend on providence to remember them. a rainbow of  unrelated thoughts that seem so scattered and random  but when you  really look at them  they have some  connections  the mind works  in mysterious ways.

so many hopes and dreams  sustain a heavy heart  when the road is foggy and the path unclear the burden unending the sighs unsatisfied take away the sorrow  of a stormy sky  and the rain of tears  that fall on a barren garden  coax new flowers to grow from the broken refuse of childish expectations and unmet needs bright and beautiful from the grey of despair

Draig , they call him  in the Welsh language  dragon is his name  not a moniker, not a title  the mystical legend made flesh in reality  the potential of stories  in his blood the swell of pride in his heart and the wave of melody in his bones.

Locked in the pages  of stories and legends  are slivers of truth  about the bravery  and the endurance  of the common person not always heroes immortalized by monuments of marble,  whose names may not  appear in popular  annals of history the ones who just try to live in the wake of tumultuous events and whose goals are not so lofty: survive the aftermath of others' folly.